Books That Take You Around the World By Keely

Hi, I’m Keely! I am a 2021 intern at the Park City Library. These books are a collection of titles to take you around the world. I enjoy them because of all the things and culture you can learn and experience from these authors. I really enjoyed reading these books and I hope you do too.

This is a nonfiction book about, you guessed it, plastic. This bite-sized book has facts and tips all about plastic. Something I really enjoyed about the book is the author is an environmental activist herself and she gives advice on how she started to take action. She also has examples of other teens, and younger, who took action against the Plastic Crisis and Climate Change. The author also gave some scary but motivating facts without the book being too much of a downer. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who would want to get into environmental books but is not sure where to start.

This is a graphic novel that tells the stories of strong women in history. I enjoyed this book because the book often had women I had never heard of before. The author also did a great job of having many different women in this book. Once I started reading this book I could not get enough and after reading the book I went on to research the women I wanted to know more about. This could be read by anyone who is interested in women’s history. 

The Help is a historical fiction book that falls in the early 1960s and tells three different stories of women’s relationships with their race. Skeeter is a white 22-year-old  who just graduated from Ole Miss and is looking for writing opportunities. She finds one, but it could put her and her storytellers in trouble. Mini, is a black woman with a temper who struggles to find work. She finally finds work for a woman who is acting strange and she can’t figure out why. But she keeps her job for fear of her husband if she does not.  Aibileen, a Black woman who is struggling with the loss of her son. She is also noticing the discrimination and she wants to do something about it. These three unlikely partners find a way to put a new perspective on their racist town.

This fact-filled book is all about athletes coming out, their bodies, and genders, “the gatekeepers,” and the future for LGBTQ+ athletes. I enjoyed this book and learned a lot. I enjoyed that the author used real-world examples of athletes. I also liked the introduction at the beginning written by a transgender man. I would recommend this book to anyone who would want to learn more about LGBTQ+ athletes and any sports lovers.

This book has shocking and fascinating stories from growing up in South Africa at a time where you couldn’t be biracial. This book shows what it is like to be born a crime.  I would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of Trevor Noah or wants to know more about him. This book explores injustices and an outside perspective on America. I loved this book and gave it two thumbs up!

This book explores four Chinese women’s experiences and stories about what brought them to America as well as their relationships with their daughters. The author shows their stories and why they did what they did. I loved this book because the four women are so different but they still want and crave the same things. The story also goes from past to present really well. I loved this book and I hope you do too.

This is the inspiring story of a girl who stood up for education and defined the Taliban. With a near-death experience, she gained fame and was able to raise awareness for this issue. In this book you see her start as just a girl who believes in education for everyone to a woman who is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. This book tells the story from Malala’s memoirs and shows who far grit can go. (There are two versions of the book for younger readers.)

If you enjoyed The Hate U Give, then I would recommend these two books by the same author. In On The Come Up, Bri wants to become a rapper, just like her dad, but when she is thrown to the ground by a school secretary she has something to rap about. But with her Mom not approving of her rapping, something is about to go wrong. This gripping book is an amazing story that hooks you from the beginning.

Concrete Rose is a prequel to The Hate You Give. Concrete Rose is a book set in the 90s and tells the story of Starr’s Dad, Maverick, and his struggle of being in a gang, having a girlfriend, school, and early fatherhood. This puts a new perspective on Starr’s life and once you start reading you can’t put it down. These two books tell two different stories but show two different sides of Starr’s life.